journalism, blogging and the real time web
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Lecture for COM495, Digital Communication TechnologiesTRANSCRIPT
Kathy E. Gill12 October 2009
Newspaper
Radio
TV
Computer
Phone
November 1990: one web host (CERN) 1994: the U.S. Senate and House of
Representatives added web servers 1994: the San Jose Mercury News launched
the first online newspaper 1998: ~300 million web pages 2000: Google had indexed 1B web pages July 2008: Google had indexed 1T web pages
1999: Google buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most latent!)
1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog
2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total
February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs 2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger 2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B
monthly pageviews
The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.
Amplified voices of dissent Facilitated misinformation (intentional and
unintentional) Incomplete story Emotional Triggered MSM response
Oregonian (note date launched) Multi-organization collaboration –
Washington Floods, 2009 A Contrarian View of Twitter and Iran, June
2009
Mobile Data Usage Cuts Across Age GroupsApril 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
More Working iPhone Owners Use Social MediaJune 2009 “Working iPhone Owners Tap The Mobile Internet”
Mobile Technographics: Understanding The Connected ConsumerApril 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
Blogging is part of the web’s evolutionary path
The real time web (Twitter et al) is the next mediamorphosis
Impact on civic life will depend on media literacy efforts
Creative Commons, share-and-share alike, attribution, non-commercial
Kathy E. Gill@[email protected]://faculty.washington.edu/kegillhttp://wiredpen.com/
1. Kent State, photo John Paul Filo,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
2. Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/
3. Death of NedaAgha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan